Name: La Ultima Cuentista
Author: Higuera, Donna Barba
ISBN: [978-1-64614-302-3,1-64614-302-7]

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La Ultima Cuentista

Author: Higuera, Donna Barba

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Follett Number: 2899KC4
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Ediciones Levine Querido, 2022
Format: 356 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-64614-302-3
ISBN-10: 1-64614-302-7
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:

Girls Fiction

Life on Other Planets Fiction

Memory Fiction

Science Fiction

Spanish Language Materials

Text in Spanish.;Translation of: The last cuentista. "A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again? "--Provided by publisher.

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Habi´a una vez . . . Una nina llamada Petra Pen~a que no queria otra cosa que ser cuentista, como su abuelita. Pero el mundo de Petra esta llegando a su fin. La Tierra ha sido destruida por un cometa, y solo unos pocos cientificos y sus hijos --entre ellos, Petra y su familia-- han sido elegidos para viajar a un nuevo planeta. Son ellos quienes garantizaran la continuidad de la raza humana. Cientos de anos despues, Petra despierta en el nuevo planeta y descubre que es la unica persona que recuerda a la Tierra. Un siniestro Colectivo ha tomado el mando de la nave durante el viaje, empenado en borrar los pecados pasados de la humanidad. En forma sistematica, han purgado los recuerdos de quienes se habian embarcado... o directamente los han purgado. Solo Petra atesora las historias de nuestro pasado y, con ellas, las esperanzas para nuestro futuro. Podra devolverles la vida? Donna Barba Higuera, ganadora del Premio Pura Belpre´, nos ofrece un viaje brillante al mismo corazon de eso que nos hace humanos.

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